Tutor Training, Football, and yes more gelato.

I had my first day of training yesterday. The first few hours were pretty rough. Lots of repetitive speeches about the purpose of the camp and lonnnnnnng lectures about how we should keep the children active and moving around rather than sitting in chairs for long periods of time so that they enjoy camp and actually learn better. Excellent advice that could have been better applied at the actual training. But the rest of the training was much more interesting and useful. We went over what our schedule will be like for each day of camp and started working on activities for the first day. Alice in Citta, the organization I work for runs multiple summer camps around Milan and the training session is for everyone working at allll of the camps. But after today I'll really only be working with seven people.

There are four other tutors in my camp: Christina, Eanna, Dervla and Tara. They're all from Ireland and Christina, Dervla, and Tara all know each other from college, but they are all very friendly and we get along well so far. Chiara is our camp coordinator and she has two assistants, Fatma (my roommate who does not have an "I" in her name it turns out) and a girl named Silvia (who I have not met yet because she is sick apparently).

Training does not take place at the school where we'll be working, so on our way home from training Fatma, the other tutors and I got lost for an hour or two because Chiara wasn't there to tell us where to go and none of us had paid very close attention to which bus stop we got off at, which bus stop we got on at, or how we got to the bus stop at all. But we made it eventually. However we're all still pretty confused so getting back to training this morning will be another adventure. Except this time we have a map which should help.

Last night Fatma and I went across the courtyard to the apartment where Eanna is staying to watch the USA-England world cup game. They tied 1-1 but it was a fairly exciting match. Then my host family came over (with gelato Emma will be happy to know).

I have to get going now. Breakfast and training await.